by
John Quanrud
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Gjerasim Qiriazi (1858–1894) was an Albanian who lived when Turkey still ruled much of southern Europe. It was a time of great upheaval, as the different peoples of the Ottoman Empire strove for national independence. Born to a poor family, Qiriazi was apprenticed full-time to a shoemaker...